[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

[Warner Losh]

On Jan 20, 2012, at 9:29 AM, mike cook wrote:

>> Modern CPUs clock around 4GHz, multiplying by 1000 for resulution we

>> find that we need 42 bits after the binary point.

> 

> Solaris already has 64 bit quantities for time operations. From their doc:

> 

> "time_t, and its derivative types struct timeval and timespec_t now contain 64-bit quantities"

> 

> Aren't you reinventing the wheel? Its open source, so just borrow it.


typedef int64_t time_t;

That's 64-bits for the seconds portion of things.  There's not a similar partial seconds.

Warner